Apple iOS 11.1.1 Starts Causing Problems

Yes, we’re here. Again. In my
AppleiOS 11.1.1 guide I recommended only users affected by the bizarre autocorrect bug should upgrade. Why came down to reports of broken notifications, general instability and - you guessed it - terrible battery life. And one week later this has not improved…

“@AppleSupport battery consumption has increased drastically for safari since the last update(11.1.1)..playing videos on safari consumes twice the battery.also battery life has been horrible and huge dip in battery percentage occurs repeatedly. #fail #ios11” - source

“Old MacApple had a phone, E-I-E-I-O, And on his phone he had IOS 11.1.1, E-I-E-I-O, With a crash crash here, And a crash crash there, Here a crash, there a crash, Everywhere a crash crash, Old MacApple had a phone, E-I-E-I-O not again!!! @Apple #iphone #update #fail” - source

While the last comment is comic genius which single handedly justifies Twitter’s decision to expand tweets, it does hammer home the problem: even after six iOS 11 releases in just over seven weeks, far too many users are still suffering.

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Apple iOS 11 was found to slash battery life almost 60% in a test of 50,000 devices upgraded from iOS 10.3.3

Needless to say it doesn’t help that four of those releases (iOS 11.0.1, iOS 11.0.2, iOS 11.0.3 and now iOS 11.1.1) were rushed out to firefightseriousproblems introduced by previous releases which in turn introduced… you get the idea.

As for the next great hope that is iOS 11.2, and Apple has already released three beta versions. Apple usually tests ‘major point’ updates over 5-7 betas so it should arrive by early December. The big question, of course, is whether this will finally deliver the stability and stamina so many affected users require or whether their hopes simply move on to iOS 11.3...